Author: Mark TushnetPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN: 0393241432Size: 59.87 MBFormat: PDF, MobiView: 6458DownloadRead Online
Harvard Law School professor and constitutional law expert Mark Tushnet clarifies the lines of conflict and what is at stake on the Supreme Court as it hangs “in the balance” between its conservatives and its liberals.

Author: Laurence TribePublisher: Henry Holt and CompanyISBN: 0805099131Size: 16.57 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, MobiView: 3109DownloadRead Online
Citizens United made clear that a majority of the Roberts Court is prepared to
come down firmly on one side of that balance. As a result, even as the issue of
money in politics looms ever larger in American life, the First Amendment as
interpreted by the Roberts Court will prohibit most efforts—by the public and by
politicians—to seek reform through campaign finance laws. Many reactions to
Citizens United mixed prophecies of doom with urgent calls for reform.
Meaningful democracy ...

Author: Pepperdine University. School of LawPublisher:ISBN:Size: 60.92 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, DocsView: 4764DownloadRead Online
Overview of the Term: The Rule of Law & Roberts's Revolution of Restraint
Douglas W. Kmiec* The October Term was a notable one, less for any singular
case, than for the landmark passages that took place on the Court: a new Chief
Justice for the first time in close to twenty years and the addition of an Associate
Justice for the first time in over a decade. The initial proceedings in this
symposium will examine the substantive work of the Court: criminal justice, civil
rights, law and politics ...

Author: David M. O'BrienPublisher: W W Norton & Co IncISBN: 9780393930399Size: 14.38 MBFormat: PDF, KindleView: 903DownloadRead Online
"The balance of the state's interest in preventing drunken driving," he concluded,
"and the degree of intrusion upon individual motorists who are briefly stopped
weighs in favor of the state program." The Court, nonetheless, refused to extend
Sitz in ... However, by a unanimous vote the Roberts Court held that passengers,
no less the driver, may challenge the constitutionality of police officers' stopping a
vehicle, in Brendlin v. California, 127 S.Ct. 2400 (2007). Bruce Brendlin was a ...